Pleasure's A Sin, And Sometimes Sin's A

What Is The Worst Of Woes That Wait On Age? What Stamps The Wrinkle Deeper On The Brow? To View Each Loved One Blotted From Life's Page, And Be Alone On Earth, As I Am Now.

Truth Is A Gem That Is Found At A Great Depth; Whilst On The Surface Of The World All Things Are Weighed By The False Scale Of Custom.

Opinions Are Made To Be Changed Or How Is Truth To Be Got At?

Why Do They Call Me Misanthrope? Because They Hate Me, Not I Them.

I Have No Consistency, Except In Politics; And That Probably Arises From My Indifference To The Subject Altogether.